Re: Testing for presence of alphabetical characters

On 2/6/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian,
>
> Your alpha string doesn't contain the substring '1a' -- can you say
> why you expect to get true? maybe we can help you test what you
> actually want to test.
>
> Ah -- testing for presence of alphabetical characters -- in XPath 1.0,
>
> not(string-length($cont) = string-length(translate($cont,$alpha,''))

or

contains(translate($cont, $alpha, 'x'), 'x')

I've heard that string-length() can get expensive because of
multi-byte characters, although I would've thought translate()
sufferered from the same problem...